Oleksandr Mykolayovych Haydash ( ua, Олександр Миколайович Гайдаш); Aleksandr Nikolaevich Gaydash (russian: Александр Николаевич Гайдаш); (born 7 August 1967 in

Mariupol Mariupol (, ; uk, Маріу́поль ; russian: Мариу́поль) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Prior to the 2022 Russian i ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

) is a former

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

(until 2014) and

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n (since 2014) professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

striker.

Career

He played for

FC Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk ( uk, Футбольний клуб «Шахтар» Донецьк , short nickname "miners") is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, the club was ...

SC Tavriya Simferopol Sports Club Tavriya ( uk, Спортивний клуб "Таврія") was a Ukrainian football club from Simferopol. Tavriya was a member of the Ukrainian Premier League from its founding and won the first Ukrainian Premier League making them ...

and FC Metalurh Mariupol' in Ukraine and

Sarıyer G.K. Sarıyer () is the northernmost district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European side of the city. It consists of the neighbourhoods of Rumelifeneri, Tarabya, Yeniköy, İstinye, Emirgan and Rumelihisarı. Sarıyer also administers the Black Sea c ...

in the Turkish

Süper Lig The Süper Lig (, ''Super League''), officially known as Spor Toto Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish professional league for association football clubs. It is the top-flight of the Turkish football league system and is run by the ...

. He is one of the leading goal-scorer (95) in the

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League'') ...

. He also scored 62 goals in the Soviet championship for

. Haydash made two appearances for the

Ukraine national football team The Ukraine national football team ( uk, Збірна України з футболу) represents Ukraine in men's international football and is governed by the Ukrainian Association of Football, the governing body for football in Ukraine. Ukr ...

.Ukraine National Team Results 1992-
After the

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Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

took Russian citizenship. Aleksandr Gaydash in 2014 he became a general director of TSK Simferopol. He is the father of Andriy Gaydash.

References

External links

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Profile at TFF.org
1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Mariupol Ukrainian footballers Ukraine international footballers Ukrainian expatriate footballers FC Shakhtar Donetsk players SC Tavriya Simferopol players Sarıyer S.K. footballers Expatriate footballers in Turkey Maccabi Herzliya F.C. players Expatriate footballers in Israel Association football forwards FC Mariupol players Ukrainian Premier League players Liga Leumit players Ukrainian football managers FC Yalos Yalta managers FC Krymteplytsia Molodizhne managers FC Feniks-Illichovets Kalinine managers FC Tytan Armiansk managers Ukrainian expatriate football managers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Israel Ukrainian emigrants to Russia Naturalised citizens of Russia {{Ukraine-footy-forward-1960s-stub